Archive for the ‘online shopping’ Category

Online orders in Australia see huge increase

Friday, June 21st, 2013

Online business in Australia has jumped by 25%.

Orders made over the internet, including both within Australia and from overseas, reaped more than $237 billion in revenues in the 2011-12 financial year over the year before, according to the IT Use and Innovation in Australian Business report released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics this week.

Information media and telecommunications businesses received the most online orders in 2011-12, followed by wholesale trade manufacturing whilst agriculture, forestry and fishing had the lowest proportion of online orders.

To read more on this story, please click here.

 

 

An interesting story of how ecommerce increased the sales for a bike company

Tuesday, June 4th, 2013

James van Rooyen and Jonathon Allara are two Australian entrepreneurs who started a bike hire company that has become one of the seven top selling bike companies in Australia. Van Rooyen who had a job in marketing, and Allara who was an accountant found out about the power of ecommerce and how it can transform their business into a successful one.  They have started with a $16000 and setup Manly Bike Tours. Now, their company is selling over 5000 bikes a year, they have 13 staff, and makes a revenue of $3 million a year.

To read more about this article please click the following link: http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/growing/online-bike-venture-riding-high-20130527-2n695.html

7 new WooCommerce extensions at the start of May

Friday, May 24th, 2013

Woothemes have launched 7 new WooCommerce extensions.

The new extensions are:

  • RedSys Gateway
  • WooCommerce Splash Popup
  • Bulk Variation Forms
  • WooCommerce Quick View
  • WePay Payment Gateway
  • Product Retailers
  • Customer/Order XML Export Suite

Theses extensions provide quite a lot of support to the existing WooCommerce Plugin for WordPress.

You can read more about the features of these new extensions at: http://www.woothemes.com/2013/05/welcoming-may-with-7-more-woocommerce-extensions/

 

Online sales reached a trilion US dollars

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

According to an article published at the Sydney herald Newspaper, the business-to-consumer e-commerce has passed a trillion US dollars in a single year  for the first time. In 2012, more than 10 million people, or almost 50% of the population, had bought something online, spending an average of $3,547 per person.

What is more interesting about this news is that the average expenditure per online buyer in Australia is higher than in the US and the UK by 54 per cent. It is also expected that the average expenditure per online buyer for Australia will grow by 7.2 per cent this year.

This means that the physical stores are definitely going to be affected by this change, it is the time for online stores to dominate the market.

Read the full article at: http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/online-sales-reach-a-trillion-20130411-2hmks.html#ixzz2TznL8nXa

MayaShop theme for WooCommerce

Friday, April 26th, 2013

MayaShop theme is a  responsive theme design that is flexible and very easy to use. It is fully compatible with WooCommerce and can be easily deployed. It is easy to customize, so you can set the colours and the background themes to suit your convenience, also header, footer and content are easily customizable, and you can change anything you like so it can suit your branding.

MayaShop theme has acheived the highest selling rate since its release on 18 April 12, it has made 6339 purchases and it is the top selling product in the eCommerce themes section at the themeforest website.

Here is a picture of this theme:

 

You can purchase or read more about this product at http://themeforest.net/item/mayashop-a-flexible-responsive-ecommerce-theme/2189918?sso?WT.ac=category_item&WT.seg_1=category_item&WT.z_author=Sara_p

 

WooCommerce Superstore theme

Friday, April 26th, 2013

WooCommerce Suerstore theme is an eCommerce theme with a mobile and tablet friendly adaptive layout and a variety of unique features.

  • It  has a really powerful admin panel
  • Unlimited scrolling through the products page
  • Featured slider
  • Custom widgets, styling options
  • Informative footer
  • Business page template
  • Integrates Features by WooThemes
  • Integrates Testimonials by WooThemes

Here is a picture of this theme:

You can read more at http://www.wplocker.com/themes/woothemes/298-superstore-v10-woothemes-wordpress-theme.html#.UXo7K7WfiSB

 

WooCommerce Facebook Tab plugin for selling through Facebook

Friday, April 26th, 2013

WooCommerce developed this plugin in order to get your business to achieve the maximum sales and increase your sales potential through Facebook. This plugin allows you to showcase and sell your products through Facebook, it is a very nice plugin to have on the Facebook page for your business.

 

You can view a demo of this product at http://www.facebook.com/pages/WooCommerce-Product-Demo/231596936918949?id=231596936918949&sk=app_326942167339765

 

You can buy this product directly from the Woothemes store at http://www.woothemes.com/products/facebook-tab/

 

 

Freshbooks plugin the full integration with Woocommerce stores

Friday, April 26th, 2013

Freshbooks is an accounting software used by over 1.8 million business owners worldwide. It offers a nice and simple dashboard to perform various accounting tasks and invoicing, you can choose to use your brand’s logo and details to be on the invoice.

This Freshbooks account can be easily integrated with your WordPress site using the Freshbooks Woocommerce plugin. By using this plugin, you will be able to automatically invoice your clients once they purchase products from your Woocommerce store. This will mean that the balance in your Freshbooks account will be updated as well.  This process is very recommended for every online store to have, it makes life a lot easier and definitley increases productivity.

 

You can read more over at http://www.woothemes.com/products/freshbooks-integration/

 

More and more Australians to start online businesses

Friday, April 19th, 2013

Due to the economic slowdown Australians are becoming more reliant on online business sites, which is just another way for boosting economy and going about increasing their savings. Online business is very successful and offers many benefits, whether it is used to increase the number of sales for a business, to get a business back on track or to start a new business from scratch.

ING Direct executive director Rob Hendriks says “Australians are very creative in boosting their income. We see an increased effort in selling goods online, taking additional jobs, and especially in New South Wales we see a lot of women entering the workforce.”

You can read the full article at http://www.smartcompany.com.au/economy/049233-more-australians-to-start-online-businesses-as-two-speed-economy-takes-hold.html

The number of online shopping users in AU is on the rise

Friday, April 19th, 2013

A research which has been put in Australia shows that the number of Australian internet users who visit online shopping websites is increasingly on the rise. This is due to the fact that the traffic on social networking sites in Australia has been decreasing.

Internet users use the internet for many reasons such as socializing with friends, looking for things of interest, and more importantly do online shopping. At the very breakthrough of social media networks, it was thought that social media networks like Facebook or Twitter were the best places for every business to market its products. People tended to use Social media networks and rely on it since it offered them a free way of marketing and advertising, however many business owners have realised that social media networks are not to be the domain marketing  strategy for businesses. This is because  every successful business must have a formal website with a registered domain name where the products can be professionally showcased, an online shop is the place where every user would go to browse for products and make an instant purchase.

Another reason for the decrease of the use of social media networks is that Australian internet users have become more aware of the fact that social media networks is not the best place to browse for products. Social media networks are kind of like the fans place but not the best place where people would trust a brand to succeed and use as the main marketing strategy.

You can read more over at http://au.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/news/a/-/16784960/australian-internet-use-changing/